![]() The creation which enters on a barge opens up to reveal high-tech spherical projection of a wide variety of videos visible to spectators from nearly a mile away. Much of it has to do with the eye-popping appearance of a globe 28 feet tall and weighing in at 320 tons. IllumiNations has been such a highly-lauded display of pyrotechnics it has won the coveted Golden Ticket Award issued by the international theme park industry for 11 consecutive years. RELATED: 22 Unique Destinations To Plan The Perfect Disney Princess VacationĪs for the future fireworks, whatever Disney technology comes up with will definitely be a very tough act to follow. ![]() Down the road, and slated to debut in 2021, just time for Walt Disney World's 50th anniversary, are rides based on box-office smashes like Ratatouille and Guardians of the Galaxy. The other ride, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, is also slated for operation sometime in the fall at Epcot, featuring characters from the famous sci-fi franchise. Mickey's branded on pretty well everything else Disney. You can find my farewell to Illuminations inspired gear in my shop on TeePublic.No doubt it will coincide with a couple new ride attractions, namely Mickey Mouse's First Ride, which will see an amusement involving the famed rodent for the first time ever. We wish you a pleasant evening and a safe journey home. We hope that your visit to the Walt Disney World Resort has been a truly magical experience for you and yours. Ladies and gentlemen, the entire Epcot family thanks you for having been with us for ‘Illuminations: Reflections of Earth’, presented by Siemens. Letting it go was not easy but I think we’ve all accepted that it was time to move on. And I cried ugly tears.Īnd so I want to thank Walt Disney World for giving us the gift of a 20 year run of this beautiful show. When that moment hit in the 2nd act when the music hit a crescendo and the pavilions around us began to light up, I tried to make myself be fully present and soak in that I would never see it again. ![]() Hugging a dear friend who was perhaps the show’s biggest fan but who also knew its time had rightly come. I watched the final show at Epcot outside of the Italy pavilion surrounded by friends. On this beautiful show that I’d come of age watching with friends and family…and realizing how it looked to first time guests who had likely just seen Happily Ever After in the Magic Kingdom and were comparing it to that. On the globe that sometimes managed to open and sometimes didn’t. IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth was an award winning night-time show that ran from 1999 to 2019 at EPCOT in Walt Disney World resort, Florida USA. I became fiercely defensive and protective of it. I found myself looking around during the show wishing that people would be able to appreciate it properly. ![]() I found myself explaining the storyline to people who hadn’t necessarily asked to try to make it sing to them the way it sang to me. I knew how much it meant to me – how much meaning was buried in the show’s several sections – but I realized more and more how lost it was on newcomers. I went from simply enjoying it to feeling protective of it. Sometimes I had to turn it off because it moved me so much that the distance broke my heart.īut I noticed a change coming over me as I watched it in recent years. When we were still living in Maryland but longing for this place, I would so often stream the Illuminations soundtrack in our house. I’ve explained my feelings about the show and having to bid it farewell to so many people in recent weeks – but I’ve never shared them here.įor myself and so many others, the real pull of Illuminations was its music. The show chronicled Earth’s existence – from the chaos that forged it in fire in the opening scenes, to order and meaning, and ending in the lighting of 19 torches around World Showcase Lagoon and then the opening of the massive globe to reveal the final flame representing the 20th century. It held our hearts with the sort of nostalgic power that made saying goodbye incredibly hard – even if we did know that it was time. The show premiered on Octoand ended on September 30, 2019, completing a stunning 20 year run.īecause the show ran for such an incredibly long time, many of us grew up with it – or watched our children grow up with it. It has been one week since the final run of Epcot’s Illuminations Reflections of Earth in Walt Disney World. ![]()
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